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DEMIAN Downloaded from HESSE DEMIAN * Translated by W. J. Strachan London Downloaded from I cannot tell my story without going a long way back. If it were possible I would go back much farther still to the very earliest years of my childhood and beyond them to my family origins. When poets write novels they are apt to behave as if they were gods, with the power to look beyond and com-prehend any human story and serve it up as if the Almighty himself, omnipresent, were relating it in all its naked truth. That I am no more able to do than the poets.
with servant girls and workmen, ghost stories and scan dalous rumours, a gay tide of monstrous, intriguing, &ightful, mysterious things; it included the slaughter house and the prison, drunken and scolding women, cows in Jabour, foundered horses, tales of housebreaking, murder and suicide. All these attractive and hideous,
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